Defendant Continues to Challenge Product Identification in Mo. Benzene Case

ST. LOUIS -- A benzene defendant named in a Missouri case has defended its motion for summary judgment, maintaining that the claims against it should be dismissed because they fail to prove that the decedent used any of its products. Whitehead v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., et al., No. 08-0421 (E.D. Mo.).

In an Oct. 27 reply brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, defendant PRC-DeSoto International Inc. claims that the plaintiffs' opposition to its motion misstates the defendant's burden for obtaining summary judgment and lobbies the court "for even more time to conduct discovery …